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Hari Kunzru Quotes

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

Hari Kunzru

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1969

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Experience Research Library Place

I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.

Joe Gebbia

Morning River Blossom You Peaceful

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Jess Walter

Hero Tragedy Create Desire Real Out

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.

John Glen

Great I Am Me Action You Know

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Andrew Motion

Family Good Poetry Doors You Royal

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving

Family Perfect Bread Nice Smell

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

Angela Merkel

Home Knowledge Peace People You Go

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

Martin Rees

Home I Am Happy Friday Church Keep

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Moby

Myself Small Look White Bald Kind

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Louis Navellier

Down Settle Drops Force Off Higher

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

Chris Milk

Music Great Time Art Soul Long

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

Clifford D. Simak

Light Dark Place Nothing Single

Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.

Alistair Brownlee

Good Sports People You Pool Country